The Magic are expected to sign free agent guard Jevon Carter for the remainder of the season, a league source confirmed to the Orlando Sentinel on Friday morning.

Carter played in 23 games this season with Chicago, averaging 5.4 points and 1.1 rebounds during 11.1 minutes per contest while shooting 41% from 3-point range.

He was waived by the Bulls on Feb. 1.

Orlando had two standard contract roster spots open after it traded Tyus Jones (along with two second-round picks) to the Hornets for cash considerations ahead of Thursday’s NBA trade deadline, and only had 14 days to get back up to 14 standard contract players signed to its roster.

Speaking for the first time following the trade deadline Thursday afternoon before Orlando took down the Nets at Kia Center, Magic president of basketball operations Jeff Weltman described the type of player the team would be searching for to replace Jones.

“Hopefully for us, probably a veteran,” Weltman said. “But I would also say, those guys generally aren’t going to move the needle a lot, and I don’t want to do it just for the sake of doing it, you know? Right now, (we need to) get our guys back healthy, get on the floor. Our roster is — I’ll let other people talk about how good it is — but it’s fairly well-balanced. It’s complete. If I say we’re going to bring in a 32-year-old guy who’s a great open 3-pointer shooter, but how do we get him on the court? So like, what does that do?

“So, I don’t know,” he added. “We’ll kind of like go through the process of seeing the next few days, who shakes out. There could be some surprises or talk to agents who are saying, ‘Hey, listen, my guy, they’ve said they’d buy him out if you guys are interested,’ and that sort of stuff. We might just keep our powder dry for a bit. I don’t know. I wouldn’t look at that minimum guy who’s going to be on the buyout mark at this stage as a needle mover.”

While Weltman isn’t inaccurate in his description of Orlando’s roster makeup — the team already features guards Jalen Suggs, Desmond Bane and Anthony Black along with rookie Jase Richardson and guard-forward Jett Howard — Carter could be of service for a younger locker room.

A second-round pick with the Grizzlies in 2018, the 6-foot-1 guard has appeared in 435 career NBA regular season games with Memphis, Phoenix, Brooklyn, Milwaukee and Chicago.

He has also played 22 playoff games between Phoenix and Milwaukee, while helping the Suns reach the NBA Finals in 2020-21, his third-year in the league.

A 38.1% career 3-point shooter, the 30-year-old Carter is also known as a strong defender, especially around the perimeter.

As both a junior (2016-17) and senior (’17-18) at the University of West Virginia, he captured the Lefty Driesell Award (national Defensive Player of the Year), the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Defensive Player of the Year and the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.

The only player to ever be named to the Big 12 All-Defensive Team four times, he still stands as West Virginia’s all-time leader in steals with 330.

Jason Beede can be reached at jbeede@orlandosentinel.com